>>54135918Obsolete in two big ways.
The first comes from Gen1 being designed as a JRPG instead of a "Pokemon Game", where Gamefreak didn't expect, and thus didn't design the game around, people getting attached to individual monsters and wanting to keep them. Trading away your haunter for your friends haunter so you both get a Genera just isn't what people want, they want to keep THEIR Haunter and evolve it.
Second: The internet made trading to get a complete dex trivial. The gimmick is no longer serving it's purpose of keeping "super strong/rare" Pokemon limited since you can find a billion Gravellers or whatever on the GTS.
